acidify
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Sulfides also acidify the water, which can accelerate weathering.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
Look to nursery shelves for products that will acidify the soil and blue your blooms.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
It is a process in which beneficial bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms break down and acidify food, transforming and preserving it.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2022
Together with one of her Ph.D. supervisors, JCU marine biologist Philip Munday, Dixson pioneered research into the effects on fish of rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere, which cause the oceans to acidify.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022
V. be sour; sour, turn sour &c. adj.; set the teeth on edge. render sour &c. adj.; acidify, acidulate.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
Unfortunately, as CO2 emissions increase, it acidifies the ocean, which can make it less hospitable for life.
From Salon ● May 21, 2025
Too much nitrogen acidifies the ground, which reduces the amount of nutrients for plants and trees.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
As often is the case in Peele’s work, comedy underlines the unease and acidifies into social critique, as when the nervous flyer approaches a couple of turbaned fellows who have not stowed their electronic devices.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019
Filled with iron ore and other heavy metals, the sludge acidifies waterways, kills fish and aquatic plants, and, if ingested, can be dangerous or fatal for humans.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2013
The way lignin acidifies and destroys paper was only really identified in the 1930s, so there are plenty of old watercolours you can get rid of.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 23, 2013
One version, ASC1, was acidified with hydrochloric acid, while ASC2 used gluconic acid.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
Low oxygen levels, in addition to harming sea life, can disrupt food webs and even make marine water more acidified.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
PEA is known to warn mammals and sea creatures of predators and its effectiveness may be increased in an acidified ocean, researchers said.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2021
It may have also acidified Earth's oceans after its impact, according to a study published in October 2019.
From Fox News ● Jan. 17, 2020
The filtered solution is acidified with hydrochloric acid, warmed, and precipitated with sodium sulphite.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
Few countries are more exposed to climate change than Tuvalu, a chain of coral atolls reckoning with acidifying oceans, tropical disease and rising seas.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
In the face of warming, acidifying oceans, coral skeletons are at risk of dissolving.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
Marine heat waves, acidifying oceans and other climate impacts are “significantly altering U.S. marine ecosystems at a pace, magnitude and extent that is unprecedented over millennia,” the report says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
It is not pleasant to imagine that human activity is making the planet uninhabitable, but we typically think of this in terms of greenhouse gases, rising sea levels or acidifying the oceans.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2023
These show that, for the production of a characteristic keffir, specific organisms are not essential, provided always that those used possess, either individually or collectively, the essential capacity of acidifying, coagulating, and fermenting the milk.
From The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente by Douglas, Loudon
